From Zillamag Via A Reader: ‘The Most Amazing Abandoned Places In The World’

Included in the photos, check out Buzludzha, the abandoned communist monument in Bulgaria’s Balkan mountains, which still draws up to 50,000 Bulgarian Socialists for a yearly pilgrimage. Human Planet’s Timothy Allen visited the structure in the snow and took some haunting photos. You will think you’ve stepped into a Bond film and one of Blofeld’s modernist lairs, but with somewhat Eastern Orthodox tile frescos of Lenin and Marx gazing out at you, abandoned to time, the elements and to nature.

Addition: As the reader points out, politically, Williams ended up a few ticks Left of ‘liberal.’

Addition: Yes, reader, that could mean ‘socialist.’ I’m working towards a theme so grand, even I don’t know it yet.

Pastoral

When I was youngerit was plain to meI must make something of myself.Older nowI walk back streetsadmiring the housesof the very poor:roof out of line with sidesthe yards clutteredwith old chicken wire, ashes,furniture gone wrong;the fences and outhousesbuilt of barrel stavesand parts of boxes, all,if I am fortunate,smeared a bluish greenthat properly weatheredpleases me best of all colors.No onewill believe thisof vast import to the nation